[fpc-pascal] Re: Library for network calculation

[Sven Barth]

On 26.07.2011 01:23, Paul Nicholls wrote:
> "Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior"
> <jagfj80 at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:CAAHHabS9aUe9gwyNjkve-XVXsRyf2UPsArh6=fSDPGoKugjfsA at mail.gmail.com...
>> Some time ago someone asked for a library able to do network calculations.
>>
>> Here is something that might evolve into such library :
>>
> <SNIP>
>> Function NetMaskToHostMask(NetMask : TNetworkIP): TNetworkIP;
>> Begin
>> Result.Mode := False;
>> NetMask.Mode := False;
>> Result.IP := NetMask.IP Xor %11111111111111111111111111111111;
>> End;
>>
> <SNIP>
>
> I didn't know that freepascal handled binary formatted numbers?!?
>
> %11111111111111111111111111111111

There are often new things one can learn about what FPC supports ;) 
(though binary numbers are already old for me ^^)

The most recent finding (at least for me) was the abbility to initialize 
local variables.

Regards,
Sven